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The Bartender's Tale (Two Medicine Country) by Doig, Ivan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Bartender's Tale (Two Medicine Country) about?
From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast)“[The] rewards of The Bartender’s Tale - a subtle and engaging narrative, characters who behave the way real people behave, the joys of careful and loving observation - remain very great and extremely rare.“ - The Washington PostTom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine.Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certain
Who reads The Bartender's Tale (Two Medicine Country)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Doig, Ivan
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594631481
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Western, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (3,020 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14